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An Inventory of Heaven
Jane Feaver
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Description for An Inventory of Heaven
Paperback. By turns chilling and poignant, An Inventory of Heaven is a lyrical and intimate meditation on the things we hold onto in life and how, in the end, we can try to let them go. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 292.
As a young woman, Mavis Gaunt leaves post-war London to make a new life for herself in rural Devon, where she spent a few blissful months of her childhood as an evacuee. Living alone in the verdant hamlet of Shipleigh, she believes she's found a heaven on earth - until a violent tragedy brings trouble to paradise, and turns Mavis's idyllic solitude into a tormented, guarded isolation.
Decades later, the arrival of a newcomer to the village forces Mavis to make a final reckoning: should she take her horrible secret to the grave? Or, should she summon up ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780338750
SKU
V9781780338750
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jane Feaver
Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. After twenty years working in the South West, Jane now lives in Edinburgh.
Reviews for An Inventory of Heaven
More intimate than Thomas Hardy, and as perceptive too, about the countryside and country people, Jane Feaver is a supremely compelling chronicler of rural isolation.
Michael Morpurgo Accomplished in every way, this novel is a true delight.
The Independent
Pitch perfect....Most memorable is Feaver's language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak
Observer ... Read more
Michael Morpurgo Accomplished in every way, this novel is a true delight.
The Independent
Pitch perfect....Most memorable is Feaver's language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak
Observer ... Read more